diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-01-22-15-54-57.gh-issue-144130.QaHIxE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-01-22-15-54-57.gh-issue-144130.QaHIxE.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..34ad9506fd3b1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-01-22-15-54-57.gh-issue-144130.QaHIxE.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add support for FreeBSD's implementation of getrandom, so :func:`os.getrandom` works there too.
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index ef90ac5de09c65..4ac03ed9a406f7 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@
 #  include <sys/sysctl.h>
 #endif
 
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_RANDOM_H
+#  include <sys/random.h>         // GRND_RANDOM on FreeBSD and NetBSD
+#endif
 #ifdef HAVE_LINUX_RANDOM_H
 #  include <linux/random.h>       // GRND_RANDOM
 #endif
diff --git a/Python/bootstrap_hash.c b/Python/bootstrap_hash.c
index f0fb87c4a5d15e..76673bc8b3db26 100644
--- a/Python/bootstrap_hash.c
+++ b/Python/bootstrap_hash.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 #    include <linux/random.h>     // GRND_NONBLOCK
 #  endif
 #  if defined(HAVE_SYS_RANDOM_H) && (defined(HAVE_GETRANDOM) || defined(HAVE_GETENTROPY))
-#    include <sys/random.h>       // getrandom()
+#    include <sys/random.h>       // getrandom(), GRND_NONBLOCK on FreeBSD and NetBSD
 #  endif
 #  if !defined(HAVE_GETRANDOM) && defined(HAVE_GETRANDOM_SYSCALL)
 #    include <sys/syscall.h>      // SYS_getrandom
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index c826a1bb85667b..2d88c50d89edb9 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -30324,7 +30324,7 @@ cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
     #include <stddef.h>
     #include <unistd.h>
     #include <sys/syscall.h>
-    #include <linux/random.h>
+    #include <sys/random.h>
 
     int main(void) {
         char buffer[1];
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 322d33dd0e3c99..6a994090ce21eb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -7377,7 +7377,7 @@ AC_LINK_IFELSE(
     #include <stddef.h>
     #include <unistd.h>
     #include <sys/syscall.h>
-    #include <linux/random.h>
+    #include <sys/random.h>
 
     int main(void) {
         char buffer[1];